...Organizational Behavior Paper Linda C. O’Neal MGT/312 - ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR FOR MANAGERS June 1, 2015 Professor Tina Emrich Organizational Behavior The study of organizational behavior is an academic discipline concerned with describing, understanding, predicting, and controlling human behavior in an organizational environment. Organizational behavior has evolved from early classical management theories into a complex school of thought—and it continues to change in response to the dynamic environment and proliferating corporate cultures in which today's businesses operate. Crafting an organization that functions as efficiently as possible is a difficult task. Understanding the behavior of a single person is a challenge. Understanding the behavior of a group of people, each one with a complex relationship with the others in the group is an even more difficult undertaking. It is, however a worthy undertaking because ultimately the work of an organization is done through the behavior driven actions of people, individually or collectively, on their own or in collaboration with technology. Therefore, a central part of the management task is the management of organizational behavior. The Behavioral Sciences Organizational behavior scientists study four primary areas of behavioral science: individual behavior, group behavior, organizational structure, and organizational processes. They investigate many facets of these areas like personality and perception, attitudes...
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...I work for Schwans Corporation at a pie factory in Stilwell Oklahoma. Our plant produced 25.7 million pounds of finished product last year, running at 95% production efficiency. I had the pleasure of talking to Sheila Chucolate, the plant manager, on two occasions about her position in the plant, overall taking over two hours. I interview her touching on six major management issues; her personality and core values, her philosophy about work and management, leadership and mentoring, the organizational goals and objectives, social responsibility and company culture; discrimination, sexual harassment and diversity, and finally just touching on IT, internet, and globalization. Personality and Managers Core Values Shela considered herself to have an extroversive personality telling me “You have to be positive even in the toughest circumstances.” She exerted both agreeable and conscientious tendencies, a real people person, but she was also re-thinking her work, and double checking others. Sheila said it was always easy to relate to others, she was raised very generous and caring, making her sensitive to others which she said had both helped her and hurt her at times. I asked if her experiences as a manager changed her, she laughed and said that she us to be a timid person now can be assertive if need to be. Sheila also demonstrated an external locus of control by confessing that her Dad in raising and still encouraging her had got her where she is today. Philosophy about...
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...Personality Assessment Organizational Behavior Part 1. Understanding own personality is definitely an important task. It is not easy to do for most people, but at the same time there is almost no chance of succeeding in life, no matter what particularly does a person hold under that, without at least trying to understand oneself. The main tool here is a constant assessment of your personality, its scales and traits, your behavior in different situations and under various circumstances. Analyzing these information and trying to learn from gained experience should produce a better understanding of what a person you are and what things in life are the most preferable for you. Most importantly, such assessment and analysis should point out character’s weaknesses that are supposed to be eliminated or at least fixed in some way. The process of self-improvement, which consists of improving personality’s better sides and fixing any weak traits, will make it sufficiently easier to communicate with other people, either in the work setting or in the personal life. I think that self-assessment is never perfect, while it’s done by a human being, because person’s feelings and emotions interfere in one way or another. Nevertheless, when a person is deliberately trying to be objective, the assessment might be rather accurate. One of my personality’s strengths is high openness to experience. In my knowledge it was confirmed not only by questionnaires and...
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...Organizational Behavior Research Paper Edgar Cervantes SEC/390 November 2, 2015 Daniel Alexander Organizational Behavior Research Paper Organizational Behavior is the study of the functioning and performance of individuals, groups, and teams within organizations as well as of organizations as a whole. Based on scientific research and empirical data, organizational behavior theorists attempt to understand, predict, and influence behavior at all levels within the organization (internet). Learning about Organizational Behavior can help you develop a better work- related understanding of yourself and others; it is a knowledge platform that can expand your potential for career success in the dynamic, shifting and complex new workplaces of today and tomorrow (textbook). Problems that I have encountered at work are the lack of leadership, and communication. The lack of leadership is that our supervisor or person in charge at night does very little to motivate others in working as a team and getting things done as needed. Most of the time we find ourselves without a leader or our leader showing up late to guide us in our projects. We find ourselves figuring things out on our own most of the time, which most of the time makes us wonder why the person in charge at night is in charge at all. There is little communication with the person in charge, regularly we have to walk around looking for the individual if we have a question because he doesn’t answer his radio when called...
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...Organizational Behavior and Communication Paper COM/530 Communications for Accountants Anne Mechail July 21, 2014 Professor Allen Sutton Organizational Behavior and Communication Paper Major organizations have two sets of values: espoused values and enacted values. An organization’s espoused values include their philosophy, mission, vision, and value statements. These are what the organization values. What the company actually does are its enacted values. This paper will briefly describe the culture of Walt Disney Company, identifying where appropriate if the organization’s espoused values align with their enacted values. It will also discuss to what extent communication within the organization is determined by the organization’s culture. Also, it will describe the role communication plays in perceptions and organizational culture by looking at how differences between espoused and enacted values can affect the perceptions within the organization. Finally, this paper will identify the role that conflict has in group communication by looking at how Walt Disney Company may use conflict to improve communication within and among their groups. Walt Disney Company, previously called Walt Disney Productions, began in 1923 with the production of silent cartoons. The company has grown in multiple businesses areas to produce and market moves, television programs, theme parks, character merchandise, as well as other areas all under the well-known Disney name. Along with...
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...Organizational Behavior and Communication Paper COM/530 Organizational Behavior and Communication The nation’s military men and women should be celebrated more often. These men and women dedicate their lives to serving our country and make the ultimate sacrifice. Marines in particular seem to have a special bond, and set of ethics and values they make a lifetime commitment to. When a marine hears the Latin term Semper Fi, it does not just mean “always faithful” to that marine like it would a civilian. Marines are trained the term Semper Fi takes on a whole new meaning, Semper Fi has been an expression of the marines since 1883. This simple phrase takes them way beyond teamwork, and the marines know they can count on each other, will be faithful to one another, and the mission at hand, no matter what. Once a person is a marine that is something that cannot be undone, and these words will always remind the marine of that. Culture The culture of the United States Marine Corps is connected by the principals and values the marines share. “Honor, courage and commitment are the values that guide us Semper Fidelis is the motto that bonds us. To guard our nation is to guard its principles, becoming not only an elite warrior, but also a noble one” ("Marine Corps", 2012). The official and unofficial traditions of the Marine Corps strengthen the camaraderie of the service. There is an emphasis placed on performing morally on and off duty in all aspects of the...
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....Individual Assignment: Organizational Behavior and Communication Paper Research paper 2 Points of Research 1- Leader ship style in Google. 2- The affect of leadership style on group communication. 3- Source of power found in Google. 4- How this source of power affect group and organization communication. 5- Google culture. 6- The motivational theory that would be effective within that culture. 7- Evaluation of the role of communication as an element of this theory. 8- Describe the commitment of the workforce to Google. 9- Relationship between the commitment and the communication. 1-leadership style in Google My researches about Google leadership style. I find out that leaders using transformational leadership style and this is one of my own favorite styles. That's because the leaders increase the satisfaction and the moral between the employees. The leader that uses this type of leadership they motivate and they give intellectual simulation. Plus, they have taken in considerations the individuals as well. If we also take a look about the qualities of the transformational style when we see that this style encourages the workers or the employees to be more innovative and creative. By opening the channels of communication, That is less a stressful and more casual and this allows the ideas between the group members to be reach and understood more easily also, the transformational style It is helping and building trust among the employees...
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...Organizational Behavior and Communication Paper Name Here COM/530 Monday, August 27, 2012 Professors Name Here The American Red Cross is a nonprofit organization was founded in 1881 by Clara Barton. The focus of the American Red Cross is to help in times of disaster as well as filling the needs of community members through the caring support of volunteers providing their gifts of time and talents to service in the time of need. Their mission statement is "a humanitarian organization led by volunteers and guided by its congressional charter and the fundamental principles of the International Red Cross Movement, will provide relief to victims of disasters and help people prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies" (Kanter, 1998, p.19). The American Red Cross is an ever changing organization and throughout the years continues to provide relief to disaster victims as well as the nationwide provider of blood and tissue services. Communication within the American Red Cross is essential to developing the ability to respond quickly to situations of emergencies and disaster relief. In times of crisis it is important for the organization to have plans set ready for action and quick decision-making abilities. In an organization, such as the American Red Cross communication is a vital role to the perception of volunteers and the few paid employees have regarding working for the organization. Perception is defined as "a process by which individuals...
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...PART ONE This paper will focus on two aspects of my life that I am very passionate about - my ongoing pursuit of higher education and my work in the humanitarian sector. I have focused on these two areas because becoming a superstar takes more than a diploma (White, 21). It requires the merger of knowledge and action. Abu Bakr, the first Muslim Caliph, is credited with saying “without knowledge, action is useless and knowledge without action is futile”. I believe that combining knowledge and action is a key element in achieving ‘Superstar’ status as described in Professor White’s book, The Superstar Roadmap: How Ordinary People Build Extraordinary Careers. In the following pages, I will relate personal experiences with Dr. White’s Superstar Roadmap and explore personal mastery of the nine steps. Deep inside, I have always felt an insatiable need for education. I have recognized its importance and have spent considerable time reading from the best books, attending formal courses, and informally seeking out dynamic authors and lecturers. In addition, I have always know that someday I would like to start a family and that I will need to be a good example to my children. One of many ways that I can demonstrate the importance of education to them is to be a living example of the principles I hope to teach them. The pursuance of education has not been easy for me and has often been inconvenient but when I listen to my heart and try to act on those feelings, I know that pursuing...
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...Name BUS610 Organizational Behavior Leadership Style Professor Date What is an organization? According to Kinicki and Kreitner it is a system of consciously coordinated activities or forces of two or more persons. My company is a loose organization without rules, broadly defined tasks, and informal communication. Our parent company is in the United Kingdom and the way they do business versus the way business is done here in the States is very different. We recently moved into a newly established office and the change has been difficult at times. The idea was that with a regional office that there would be less “siloing” and more communication between the employees. While this has happened on some level there is also much consternation for the established employees in that they are expected to be in the office two days a week at a minimum. Thursdays have been designated as “Team Thursday” and everyone is expected to be in the office if they are not at a client site or meeting. The idea is that we have a large enough group of employees within the local area that having an office for company meetings, client visits, training or other needs makes sense. The COO and HR Director were the ones that chose the location and office space. It is convenient that the new office is within four miles of their current homes. There has been resistance to the new office rules. Recently a strong email was sent out from the COO about the number of days in the office, arrival...
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...Normally an organization has a mission statement that will express what the company’s main values are along with what their goals are. The goals along with the values that are set by the company will normally act as a foundation of the guidelines that the company sets for themselves. There are times when the guidelines that are set by the company are not followed as they should be. The company Southwest Airlines is one of the major air transportation that is provide in the United States. The organizational culture for the company Southwest Airlines is tended to be more toward having extraordinary customer service. They are also more employees’ oriented (Southwest Airlines Co.). The key to an organizations being successful is to have excellent communication skills. If the company is having trouble with communicating between management to employees that then the goals along with the values that are set forth by the company then they are not going to be met. The best idea for a company is to have an open communication line that goes between the two: both the managers and the employees. No matter how affective you set up your communication within a company there is always a chance that there will be a conflict. These conflicts can result from human motivations, human emotion, disagreement on how they should proceed, and political philosophy. If conflict does happen there are things that a manager can do to defuse then such as empathy, listening and exploring. Empathy is an expression...
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...Siberia a part of Russia makes the largest region of the northern asia. Though its richness both in minerals and agriculture, Siberia was one of the most preferred place by the Europeans to be an exile place since it was considered a cheap system of purnishing the wrong doers in the society rather than building jails to hold them up. Siberia was declared an exile place by the Russians decades ago after their exploration to the land. In the 1800 most of the exiles in Siberia were war prisoners who were involved in the second world war. The uses of Siberia as an exile place for war prisoners later it became un economical due to the fact that it lacked moder prisons though it continued to catter for more and more war verterans due to the limited space that the Russians prison had and considering the fact that it was cheap to have people moved to the area and support them selves and also it made it possible to move people away from the capitol where if left there would cause some havoc bothe to the government and to the people. Through the leadership of Nicholas II, Siberia was viewed as a place of great interest booth to the locals and the people who came from far parts of the region. He encouraged the colonization of Siberia due to its richness in gold and also its agricultural potential. He also made a move in reducing rural over population in the country by moving people to Siberia not mentioning how the railway helped in the opening up of the region to the rest of the world....
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...Organizational Behavior Terminology and Concepts Paper Organizational Behavior Terminology and Concepts Paper An organization is a group of individuals that work together with common goals and vision. The people within these organizations are the driving force that are made up of CEO’s, Controllers, CFO’s, managers, employees. These organizations also include external influences like that of customers, distributors and venders and the like. It is the organizational culture, organization behavior, ethics and communication that makes these organizations stronger and keep integrity at the forefront of the organization’s mission, values and principles. Within this paper the areas of organization; culture; behavior; ethics; and communication will be elaborated on and examples provided. Organizational Culture Organizational Culture is the outcome of the internal environments and beliefs along with values that influence the behavior of organizational members as a whole. The more solid and stronger the organizational culture the more well-developed and well-communicated the beliefs and values will be, hence the organizational vision is clearly presented for future endeavors. ” Organizational culture is the sum total of an organization's past and current assumptions, experiences, philosophy, and values that hold it together, and is expressed in its self-image, inner workings, interactions with the outside world, and future expectations.” ("Organizational Culture", 2011). The...
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...Organizational Behavior Terminology and Concepts Paper The success of an organization depends on many factors to include management, leadership, and various departments within the organization. The hidden factor of an organization’s success is the organizational behavior and culture. The way the business determines the values on people and principles within describes the organizational culture. One will define the organizational behavior and culture in the workplace along with how diversity and communication relate to the outcome of both culture and behavior. Organizational Behavior: The definition of organizational behavior (OB) from the textbook (Schermerhorn, Hunt & Osborn, 2008), describes OB as the study or learning of many individuals and the different groups they belong to within the organizations. Some people will label the particular field of study as an “interdisciplinary” because the main focal point of OB has a number of disciplines. The disciplines are broken down into sociology, psychology, anthropology, economics, and political science. By studying the disciplines from organizational behavior managers can find the most effective ways in motivating people to perform at their best without the need for the manager to believe he or she needs to “push” in a relative sense to obtain the most out of subordinates. When managers push people, they can significantly reduce the level of morale within the structure. By pushing less or letting the process work...
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...Organizational Behavior Terminology and Concept Paper MGT 307 August 23, 2010 University of Phoenix Organizational Behavior Terminology and Concept Paper With any type of organization that exist the most important asset they have are the people who work for them. It is important that employees understand certain key terminology when they are part of any organization. Terms such as organizational culture, organizational behavior, diversity, and communication are important that every employee understands because they can influence employees. Understanding each terminology and their concepts can help organizations and employees to accomplish a successful working environment that can help increase productivity. Terminology - organizational culture The personality of an organization can be seen in the organizational culture (OC). The organizational culture are beliefs, values that influence any employees behavior in an organizational. " Organizations with strong cultures operate with a clear vision of the future that is supported by well-developed and well-communicated beliefs and values" (Schermerhorn, Jr., Hunt, & Osborn, 2008, p. 11). In an organizational Culture Inventory Organizational is made up of three cultures. They are constructive cultures, passive/defensive cultures, and aggressive/defensive cultures. In a constructive culture members are encourage to work with one another as a group. Constructive cultures encourages employees to work together to...
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